8-letter words containing age
- diagetic — Misspelling of diegetic.
- diallage — a green or brownish-black variety of the mineral augite in the form of layers of platelike crystals
- disusage — Gradual cessation of use or custom; disuse.
- dowagers — Plural form of dowager.
- drainage — the act or process of draining.
- dressage — haute école (def 1).
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- droppage — an amount dropped or wasted during application, installation, etc.: Mix some extra plaster to allow for droppage.
- enallage — (uncountable, rhetoric) Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.
- endamage — (archaic) To damage.
- ensilage — The process of producing silage by the fermentation of green fodder.
- envisage — Contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event.
- equipage — The equipment for a particular purpose.
- ferriage — conveyance or transportation by a ferryboat.
- flagella — a plural of flagellum.
- floatage — an act of floating.
- floorage — floor space.
- fly page — banner
- foliaged — Having foliage.
- foliages — Plural form of foliage.
- footages — length or extent in feet: the footage of lumber.
- footpage — an errand-boy
- foragers — food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.
- frautage — cargo
- frondage — (collectively) the fronds (of a plant)
- frontage — the front of a building or lot.
- frottage — a technique in the visual arts of obtaining textural effects or images by rubbing lead, chalk, charcoal, etc., over paper laid on a granular or relieflike surface. Compare rubbing (def 2).
- fruitage — the bearing of fruit: soil additives to hasten the fruitage.
- fuselage — the complete central structure to which the wing, tail surfaces, and engines are attached on an airplane.
- garbaged — Simple past tense and past participle of garbage.
- garbages — discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
- garbagey — Like garbage; trashy, worthless.
- graftage — the art or practice of inserting a part of one plant into another plant in such a way that the two will unite and continue their growth.
- grainage — the duty paid on grain
- grammage — the weight of paper expressed as grams per square metre
- greenage — of the color of growing foliage, between yellow and blue in the spectrum: green leaves.
- grillage — a framework of crossing beams used for spreading heavy loads over large areas.
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- guardage — the state of being in the care of a guardian
- helotage — a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state. Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- herbaged — covered with grass or herbage
- heritage — something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition: a national heritage of honor, pride, and courage.
- homepage — Alternative form of home page.
- hostaged — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- hostages — Plural form of hostage.
- ice ages — (often initial capital letters) the glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene Epoch.
- interage — the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
- iron age — the period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, marked by the use of implements and weapons made of iron.
- jazz age — the period that in the U.S. extended roughly from the Armistice of 1918 to the stock-market crash of 1929 and was notable for increased prosperity, liberated or hedonistic social behavior, Prohibition and the concomitant rise in production and consumption of bootleg liquor, and the development and dissemination of jazz and ragtime and associated ballroom dances.